Malorn Cluster
The Malorn Cluster is a cluster principally located in Malorn Sector.
- It is an astrographic feature and a trade route.
- It lies within the Malorn Union, an independent interstellar polity.
Description (Specifications)[edit]
The Malorn Cluster is a stellar group lying across the border between Aldebaran Sector and Malorn Sector.
- It has 14 member systems.
- The coreward terminus falls within Aldebaran Sector; most of the systems are within Malorn.
- It is named for Malorn Subsector.
- Few of its worlds have been surveyed.
A basic overview of the Cluster, right:
- Member worlds are highlighted in tan.
Malorn Union[edit]
The Malorn Cluster is the largest of the three clusters that form the Malorn Union.
- The Union's other constituent clusters are the Elias Group and the rim-trailing worlds of the Aleutia Run.
Commercial Data[edit]
The following commercial and economic data is available:
Corporations[edit]
Corporations and organizations known to be active within the Cluster include:
- Layaefui, an Aslan corporation that specializes in exploration, scouting, and surveying.
- Orion Metallurgy Corporation (OMC), engaged in resource exploration, extraction, and processing throughout the Solomani Sphere.
- Panstellar, a major transport and logistics corporation.
- Transstar, a Solomani megacorporation specializing in transport and logistics. It operates across 13 sectors, represented by the 13 stars in its logo.
Goods[edit]
Notable local commodities include:
- (none currently listed)
Security & Defense[edit]
The worlds of the Cluster are patrolled by the Malorn Union Navy. It defends Union territory, protects Union interests, suppresses piracy, and ensures interstellar trade and commerce.
- Union Navy vessels may demand customs inspections.
- The positions of naval facilities in Malorn Sector are uncertain, though there are certainly bases in some of the cluster's systems.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
High cargo capacity, low jump rating vessels move along the worlds of the Cluster carrying huge amounts of goods and commodities to its varied markets. Jump-2 and Jump-3 feeder routes work their ways around the rifts and voids that dot the region, linking the Cluster to outlying worlds.
Solomani Security keeps a close eye on activities and events within the Cluster to ensure the security of the Confederation and the well-being of its loyal citizens. Almost anyone could be a SolSec informant, passing on all sorts of useful information: some gain a reward or benefit for their actions, others are coerced, but a few see it as an act of duty to help protect the Solomani state and its interests.
- SolSec actively competes against Malorn Union intelligence agencies.
Demographics[edit]
Significant populations of the following races (sophont species) reside within this area:
Humaniti (Human races)[edit]
- Solomani (Major Race): Widely spread across the region.
- Mixed or other heritage: Occasionally encountered across the region.
Non-Human Races[edit]
- Malorn Aslan (Major Race): Occasionally encountered across the region.
- Malorni of a currently unknown homeworld in Malorn Sector (Minor Race): A mysterious, physically tall humanoid race.
- Some believe the Malorni may actually be a Human Chimera.
- Valkyrie of an unknown homeworld (Minor Race): A parasitic species that "infect" other sophonts and take over their bodies.
- Suspected outbreaks have occurred in some of the Union's systems, though exact numbers remain unclear.
Linguistic Topography[edit]
The most commonly heard languages are:
- Native Malorni languages.
- Malorn Trokh, a dialect of the principal language of the Aslan Hierate
- Minor Aslan Languages: note that some Aslan Clans retain obscure or archaic languages for personal use in addition to Trokh.
- Rim Anglic, a dialect of Anglic and the principal language of the Solomani Confederation.
Timeline[edit]
Major events that have affected this cluster and the wider area that it lies within:
- -9235: Far to coreward, the Vilani discover jump drive technology. Over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across Charted Space.
- -4045 to -2204: The Ziru Sirka controls vast territories.
- -2431: Terrans discover jump drive technology.
- -2404 to -2215: The Interstellar Wars. The young Terran Confederation battles against the ancient Vilani Ziru Sirka.
- -2204 to -1776: The Rule of Man administers the former Ziru Sirka.
- -1999: The Aslan gain jump drive technology.
- -1862 to -1110: The Terran Mercantile Community is active within the region.
- -1776 to 0: The Long Night.
- -1118 to 380: The Aslan Border Wars.
- -1110 to 588: The Terran Mercantile Community gradually becomes the Old Earth Union, shrinking to control the region around Terra.
- The Year 0: To coreward, the Third Imperium is founded.
- 300-420: The Imperial First Survey charts the Cluster.
- 380: The Peace of Ftahalr ends the ongoing Aslan Border Wars and establishes understandings regarding Human and Aslan influence.
- 588: The Old Earth Union and the former territories of the Terran Mercantile Community are annexed by the Imperium, moving its border adjacent to the Aslan Hierate.
- 604-622: The Imperial Civil War.
- 624: The Imperial Express Boat Network is established.
- 704: The Solomani Autonomous Region is formed.
- 800-820: The Psionics Suppressions.
- 871: The Solomani Confederation is founded.
- 940: The Solomani Autonomous Region is dissolved.
- 990-1002: The Solomani Rim War.
- 995-1065: The Imperial Second Survey includes data for the Cluster.
- 1065: The Second Survey is published. Information about the Cluster becomes widely available.
Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)[edit]
This astrographic feature is found in the following areas:
Charted Space – Balkanized Space:
World Listing[edit]
Comprehensive Second Survey data for one member world of the Malorn Cluster is available.
- The primary source material for all data is Traveller Map.
- Other sources may differ: some elements of the data may be contradictory or incorrect.
- Data is occasionally updated as new information becomes available.
AAB library archives contain expanded data about the following systems:
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Note that some Second Survey data, though only 40 years old, may already be out of date.
- Scouting missions gathering reliable, verified data can receive substantial payment.
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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- John Harshman, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. Classic Traveller Supplement 8 Library Data (A-M), (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), various pages. (Library data entries)
- John Harshman, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. Classic Traveller Supplement 11 Library Data (N-Z), (Game Designers Workshop, 1982), various pages. (Library data entries)
- Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), pages 8-11, various others. (dot map locating the worlds of the Cluster)
- Michael Taylor. Fighting Ships of the Solomani (QuikLink Interactive, 2009), page 5. (background for the region)